Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/09/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Donal Philby >Interestingly, I was speaking with Luis Casteneda not long ago and he >had just received a new f/1 to replace his slightly older f/1 (not an >f/1.2) and said the difference was night and day--the new was wonderful,= >he said, in fact, stunning. He had given up using the older f/1 version= >because of image quality. What he didn't know was whether the >difference was due to design change or because the older lens was out of= >alignment or some such. He liked the quality of the new version so much= >it had become his standard 50mm. = There was no design change advertised but Leica is known (and Leitz befor= e) for regularly improving the coating of lenses (like the 50 Summilux between 1964 and now etc..) Maybe that's the answer. My own Noctilux (one of the first) is not at his best against the light (sun or spot etc..) and I have friends who are really happy in the same situation with later Noctilux. Lucien BELGIUM